Ms. Bargmann, 42, is one of a new generation of landscape architects teaming up with scientists and historians, artists and architects to reclaim wastelands without erasing history.
Notwithstanding that Mr. Gehry's involvement sold many skeptics on the development in the first place, the area doesn't need a single architect for all 22 acres because a multiplicity of designers, or better, a variety of architects teamed up with different developers, would avoid the monotony of all such megaprojects and accelerate construction.
Based on a Dutch model, often used for terraced housing, Igloo is acting as a "custom-build enabler", getting outline planning permission for around 70 units and providing future residents with a choice of five different "home manufacturers" (groups of architects teamed up with local builders) who will provide options for buyers to choose from and customise, a little like buying a car.
He settled the architects' teams in a specially built design studio bullpen on the 25th floor of 7 WTC and hung over their heads an electronic "countdown clock" to ensure that there would be no dilly-dallying or personal strutting.
Entitled Freedom of Expression National Monument, this collaborative project was designed by the New York artist-architect team of Laurie Hawkinson, John Malpede and Erika Rothenberg.
Stage an international competition for an artist-architect team to design a "world-class" memorial for victims and heroes.
For Darlings Danama, the architect team of Alexandre and Cristina Negoescu, based in Paris, sought to create what Mr. Negoescu called a "contemporary and convivial" atmosphere.
The 1906 building replaced an earlier Wyoming, which had been built by same the developer-architect team that put up its northern ancestor.
An impressive new space is Nordenhake (Lindenstrasse 34; 49-30-206-1483; www.nordenhake.com), where the Swedish dealer Claes Nordenhake gutted a former department store and hired the architect team of Pierre Jorge Gonzalez and Judith Haase to carve out eight galleries.
In June at P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center in Queens, a husband-wife architect team built a solar-powered outdoor farm out of stacked rows of cardboard tube planters — one that would not meet Dr. Despommier's security requirements — with chicken coops for egg collection and an array of fruits and vegetables.
Each of these sub-areas has a nominated architect team; however, a single architect can work for several architect teams.
